Anyone who has been to the capital Male’ would have an impression that all the country’s efforts to combat climate change are doomed to fail, writes Jofelle Tesorio in Asia News magazine.
“Even the basic element of sanitation in this crowded capital seems wanting. There are no trash bins on the island and the streets are littered with plastics, bottles and other rubbish. The heavy use of bottled water is owed to the fact that the country doesn’t have its own water source. Water comes from desalination plants.
“Unabashed building constructions continue and there is no indication that the residents are willing to give up on
using smoke belching motorcycles and cars because they are seen as status symbol. In fact, despite the narrow streets, choking parking areas and high import tax on vehicles, people still buy cars and motorbikes.
“Only migrant Bangladeshis use bicycles, which is usually a source of mockery among Maldivians. Male’ doesn’t have a centralised sewage treatment plant that cleans the sewage before pumping it out to the sea. This scenario is definitely in contrast with the overall perception of the Maldives as a premier high-end destination with pure and pristine nature.
“About 330 tonnes of garbage make it to Thilafushi Island, known as the ‘Rubbish Island’, each day. Only a handful of the 190 resorts in the Maldives have their own recycling facility and sewage treatment plants.”
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In Male,, I just finished drinking a can of coke, looking for a bin to put it in, some security guard smiled at me as if to say my goodness how naive, he just took it from me and placed it smack bang in the middle of the path on the floor...made me feel unconmfortable
Because we don't have rubbish bin we most Maldivians just throw, there was a time where bins were placed but those got filled with household garbage at the end of the day.
So whats the solution to all this littering and garbage, introduce some services, but even those services cannot function in the current Male', do densely populated overcrowded streets and the apathetic populated.
All of the 190 resorts in the Maldives have their own recycling facility and sewage treatment plants.
good expose. pretty soon we'll be very shocked to hear people are talking about this abroad, with all the "should have handled it internally" crap, and eventually calling for the death penalty for no particular reason.